WANDOFUHR (Langfuhr) wins in allowance company for Mike Keogh. He was off a step slow but made up ground quickly to win by 1 3/4 going 6 furlongs on the all-weather track . He races for The Estate of Gustav Schickedanz. WANDOFUHR has earned over $110,000.
This painting, featuring the 1942 Aiken Trials, will come up for auction.
” This painting depicts the Aiken Trials, which began in 1942 at the newly built Aiken Training Track. Devereux Milburn, F. S. von Stade, and William B. Wood obtained a charter for the training track in 1941. Modeled after Keeneland’s track in Lexington, Kentucky, it was completed and opened in November of that year and not long after saw success with Shut Out, who trained there, winning the 1942 Kentucky Derby. …”
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ORNAMENTAL IRON (Flat Out) stalked the pace and then bid outside to win her 6th race – in allowance company at Remington. The 4 year old filly is owned by GK Racing and was bred by Tim & Nancy Hamlin (KY), She is trained by Karl Broberg. While in Aiken she was trained by Cary Frommer.
7 year old SW BRIDGET’S BIG LUVY (Tiz Wonderful) won for the 9th time making a bid in the stretch and just getting his head in front. He is pushing $400,000 in earnings. He has made money and brought excitement and fun to several sets of owners. Currently, he is owned and trained by J. Guadalupe Guerrero. BRIDGET’S BIG LUVY was bred by Dark Hollow Farm. He was trained in Aiken by Cary Frommer.
TORONTO, October 12 – City Boy, the second-to-longest shot at 24-1, closed determinedly to prevail by a head under rider Jesse Campbell in Saturday’s Grade 2, $280,900 Nearctic Stakes.
The Nearctic, run over six furlongs of “yielding” turf, went with a field of nine.
“I nominated him, before his last start, to this,” said Mike Keogh, who trains City Boy for The Estate of Gustav Schickedanz and Don Howard. “I just thought if no heavy hitters shipped in, it would be worth taking a shot. And, that’s what happened.”
Boreal Spirit was first to show in the Nearctic, but Yorkton, breaking from the outside, quickly assumed command and led by two lengths through a quarter-mile timed in :22.54 and by a length after a half in :45.13.
Although Yorkton still led turning for home, the backfield was in motion and City Boy, who had raced in close attendance throughout, battled it out to prevail in the tight finish.
Reconfigure, claimed for $25,000 at Woodbine this July, also finished well to take down second money and complete a local exactor.
Richiesinthehouse, a Chicago shipper who had stalked the pace throughout, finished another head back in third, with 2-1 favorite Blind Ambition fourth, 1 ½-lengths behind the show horse.
Woody Creek, invading from Ireland, never reached serious contention and finished fifth, while Yorkton hit the wall and ended sixth.
Lookin to Strike, Admiralty Pier, and Boreal Spirit completed the order of finish.
The final time was 1:08.18.
Keogh was recording his second Nearctic win, having captured the 1999 renewal with Clever Response.
The bay was winning his first stakes race and just his third race in his 16th career outing. Bred by Schickedanz, who died this June 17, City Boy is a five-year-old gelding by City Zip out of the Bold Ruckus mare Princess Ruckus.
Keogh had no immediate thoughts on City Boy’s next step.
“It’s been a long year, this one… a difficult year,” he said. “(The win) It’s great. I’m just going to savour the moment. This one’s for Gus.”
City Boy returned $50.70, $20.90 and $11.70. The 5-4 exactor with 11-1 Reconfigure came back at $419.30 and the 5-4-8 triactor with 8-1 Richiesinthehouse ($6.50, to show) was worth $2,001.05. Mutuel favourite Blind Ambition completed a boxcar 5-4-8-6 superfecta worth $7,447.65 for $1.
Stakes placed in the Miss Disco Stakes. BUNTING (Banbox) raced to a wire to wire win in allowance company at Laurel. She is a homebred for Hillwood Stables, LCC and is trained by Rodney Jenkens. She is approaching $100,000 in earnintgs.
Cot Campbell
An exhibit celebrating late W. Cothran “Cot” Campbell’s life will open at the Aiken Thoroughbred Hall of Fame and Racing Museum Sunday, Oct. 27 at 1:30 pm. A silent auction, which will benefit the Hall of Fame, will be held from 1:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. for various memorabilia–including trophies, artwork and win photos–from the Dogwood Stable collection, donated by Campbells’ wife, Anne. The exhibition is free to the public.
Campbell, who changed the sport of Thoroughbred racing when he developed the concept of syndicated ownership, was born Sept. 27, 1927, in New Orleans, and passed away Oct. 27, 2018, at his home in Aiken.
Among the outstanding horses that carried Dogwood’s green-and-yellow silks were 2013 GI Belmont S. winner Palace Malice, 1990 GI Preakness winner Summer Squall and 1996 GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Storm Song, who won the Eclipse Award as the nation’s champion 2-year-old filly.
Included among Campbell’s Achievements/Award:
• Aiken Standard Person of the Year in 2003
• Greater Aiken Chamber of Commerce ‘Man of the Year’ in 2006
• Inducted into the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007
• Eclipse Award of Merit in 2012
• Inducted into the Saratoga Walk of Fame in 2016
• National Racing Hall of Fame Pillars of the Turf in 2018
For more information halloffame@cityofaikensc.gov or visit www.aikenracinghalloffame.com.
Bill Gutfarb and his wife Wendy have maintained a house in Aiken since 2009 as seasonal residents, becoming full time residents in 2014 with the purchase of their home in the Horse District. He formally retired in 2016 after ten years with the Boston Red Sox and thirty four with Boston Trust Management Corporation. Retiring as Executive VP and Treasurer with responsibility for the business affairs of the late Jean Yawkey, her trust and estate, the Yawkey Foundations, her controlling interest in the Boston Red Sox, and the 25,000-acre Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center in Georgetown, SC. Over the years Bill has served as a trustee of a number of New England independent schools and charitable organizations. He was a charter member of the board of Boston’s Emerald Necklace Conservancy. He also served for many years as a trustee and Clerk of the Corporation of the Dedham (MA) Institution for Savings, a $1.5 billion Mutual Savings Bank. Bill is a graduate of Boston University and holds an MBA from Babson College. Bill remains active as a Trustee of the Yawkey Foundations and is a Trustee of Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, MA.
Bill and Wendy are active in Aiken’s equestrian community, and Wendy serves as Joint Master of the Aiken Hounds. Interests include ownership of thoroughbred racehorses, sporting art, and non-fiction reading. He’s been active over the years in the sports of ice hockey, golf, skiing, riding and fox-hunting. Bill is a member of the Green Boundary Club, the Saratoga Reading Rooms and the Aiken Tennis Club. Bill has two adult children married and living in Massachusetts.
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2nd-Keeneland, $76,320, Alw (C)/Opt. Clm ($80,000), 10-5,
3yo/up, f/m, 1m, 1:37.45, ft.
GOTHAM GALA (f, 4, Smart Strike–Fifth Avenue Ball, by Deputy Minister) captured the Obeah S. at Delaware Park June 15 and was fourth behind MGISW Elate (Medaglia d’Oro) next out in the GII Delaware H. July 13. She missed by a nose last time in Thistledown’s Lady Jacqueline S. Aug. 17 and was favored at 9-5 to return to winnings ways here. Racing in midpack off opening splits of :22.75 and :46.03, the bay advanced in the lane, edging past 32-1 shot Youngest Daughter (The Factor) in the final sixteenth to win by a length. The winner is a half to Eastwood (Speightstown), GSP, $265,545. Her dam was bred to Quality Road last spring.
Sales history: $260,000 Ylg ’16 KEESEP. Purchased by Clancy Bloodstock and trained in Aiken by Legacy Stable
Lifetime Record: SW, 11-4-1-2, $253,290.
O-Mark B. Grier
B-Fred W. Hertrich (KY)
T-Arnaud Delacour
Lydia A. Williams
South Carolina horsewoman Cary Frommer has knocked it out of the park with horses she has purchased at Fasig-Tipton’s Midlantic Fall Yearlings Sale, including two grade 1 winners and one sold for $1 million.
But after buying only five at last year’s sale, Frommer was much more active during the Sept. 30-Oct. 1 auction this year, acquiring pinhook prospects on behalf of herself and partners as well as horses destined for the stables of several other clients.
“This is my sale and I just love it,” Frommer said, before adding that the depth of the buying base was strong this year, laughingly suggesting they’re invading her turf. “But now, everybody is here. And I don’t appreciate it.”
Frommer’s Midlantic yearling sale successes include Stephen Foster (G1) winner Bradester , purchased for a mere $20,000 and re-sold as a 2-year-old for $195,000, and Henley’s Joy, a $20,000 Midlantic yearling purchase who was resold for $50,000 as a 2-year-old and has gone on to win three stakes, including the Belmont Derby Invitational (G1T).
The agent had also acquired a colt by Uncle Mo for $90,000 at Midlantic and sold him for $1 million as a juvenile.
This year, Frommer signed for 15 yearlings for $761,000 on behalf of herself and clients.
Topping the list was a Jump Start colt (Hip 150) for $130,000 from the consignment of Marshall W. Silverman, agent. Bred in Pennsylvania by J. Besecker, N. Strong, J. Cullen, K. Cullen, and Silver Springs Stud, the colt is out of the War Pass mare Gritty Gal, a half sister to grade 3 winner He’s Got Grit. Frommer also purchased an Upstart filly (Hip 271) for which she paid $120,000 from Dark Hollow Farm, agent. Bred in Maryland by her consignor, the filly is out of the stakes-winning Pure Prize mare Plum.
Frommer said she and some of her partnerships had ramped up the amount they were willing to spend on pinhook prospects in recent years, a move that added to their overhead and did not produce the desired results.
“We’re trying to keep a little more sense to our buying,” Frommer said. “We went high and pushed hard on some horses the year before last and didn’t reap the rewards we would have liked. We made money or broke even and we had some home runs, but they weren’t with the horses we paid a lot of money for, so that was the problem. We have backed up a little on price this year. If we do step up it will have to be for something we really feel good about.”
In a divergence from her playbook, Frommer this year did not attend Fasig-Tipton’s sales in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in August and is trying to fill her barn with yearlings bought at Midlantic so she can skip Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky Fall Yearlings Sale later this month.
“At the last minute I ducked out the gap and didn’t go to Saratoga. I am trying to get enough that I don’t have to go to the October sale because I have a lot of horses in training and need to stay home,” she said, noting that Barry Berkelhammer, with whom she partners on a lot of horses, would be at the Kentucky sale.
“I will buy into some of his and he will buy into some of mine; we’re splitting it up a little more this year,” she said of the partners’ buying patterns.
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